New typeface: Baton

Baton is a sans serif typeface with narrow proportions combining eccentric shapes inspired by french vernacular typography with the simplicity of modern sans serifs. Peculiar details and a low contrast make the design slightly strange yet elegant, but it is the exaggerated high and low midline in the uppercase and the small x-height which give Baton its distinctive flair. Relatively wider and more toned down, the lowercase allow Baton to function not only as a display typeface, but also for short texts such as leads in magazine.
Baton comes in 10 styles with an extended language support and a wide range of OpenType features such as ligatures, alternate letters, tabular and lowercase figures, fractions, and a stylistic set of uppercase with thin accents for headlines with tight leading.
Designed by Yassin Baggar and Anton Koovit. Originally commissioned by Yorgo Tloupas and Paul Chemetoff for the redesign of GQ France magazine.

Baton is available exclusively at fatype.com
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About Fatype

Fatype is an independent type foundry established by Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar.
We distribute original retail typefaces and offer our expertise for the creation of taylor-made typefaces, the customisation of existing fonts, language extensions, and the optimisation of typefaces for screen rendering.
Fatype has designed typefaces for GQ France, Derzeit (Fashion Week Berlin Daily), Google and Journal B.